I havent watched the news in like 20 years. I feel quite calm. Whats the point of worrying about news when you cant do anything about it?
It gets worse when you get a kid, cant sleep at night, and a house mortgage for life. Just figured I would cheer you up. :p
We are racists when it comes to operating systems. No windows allowed at home.
Maybe we need a term for this. What do the gender focused Lemmy crowd think is a good term for not accepting windows.
Windophobic?
Just a lot less settings, options and features. Gnome is slimmed down compared to plasma.
For me it was that Jetbrains editors have blurry text under Wayland 4k screens, even with fractional scaling experimental enabled. And in plasma the same app has sharp text.
There were a few of those situations and I just got the impression that plasma was working better. Also the theming in Gnome was kind of hacky. Plasma has better looking themes too.
You can set up wireguard vpn on a tiny instance in Amazon or Google, and bounce traffic through that one. Then you control what gets logged (Amazon may have logs over all outgoing connections from all instances somewhere though).
You can even make it change it's public ip every day if you want.
AI can put together all that personal data and create very detailed profiles on everyone, automatically. From that data, an Ai can add a bunch of attributes that are very likely to be true as well, based on what the person is doing every day, working, education, gender, social life, mobile data location, bills etc etc.
This is like having a person follow every user around 24 hours per day, combined with a psychologist to interpret and predict the future.
It's worth a lot of money to advertisers of course.
Gnome is severely lagging behind plasma, despite having a smaller desktop environment to develop and manage... Maybe the gnome dev team is much smaller too.
Ridiculous. Where are the adults?
That ip address at a university is probably forwarding everything to some Chinese government agency. Now they can just blame the university and remove any trace of the real guys.
It's impossible to be 100% honest all the time if you want to live in the western culture. It would cause so many problems. You would be seen as someone strange, even though you are the normal one for expressing your honest emotions.
In a mad world, being sane is seen as being mad.
It started around 9/11 for me, but maybe because I started paying attention. Before that I didn't even care what they said. After that, it's like watching the asylum.
Don't care about features, just care about how to protect myself against their data stealing.
It's different. If you watch movies from the 80s and 90s, adults usually don't act like young children. They still have character development, but they are already adults and don't need to grow into adults.
Adults have a lot of issues to deal with, and we grow constantly emotionally too. But some parts of us are already grown, or should be, when getting close to 30.
From my point of view, Trump and Musk are still children, despite their age. They are intelligent but immature and childish. So maybe it's just that society today don't care if someone is mature or not. In fact, maybe it's encouraged to be immature. I don't know, interesting to think about.
It was great to be so close to USA on the map, until it wasn't.
No but I look at how old people looked when they were young, and it's always a shock.
A password max length shouldn't be needed if they store a hash of it in the db.
Saving the stock value of Open Ai and chip companies... Until they manage to compete again.
Shows all the information Google gets from just one photograph, using Ai.
Located in a former bank downtown, the facility has had 300 people apply for its remaining 17 rental beds
This is not dystopian at all, is it? Humans sleeping in pods. I guess it beats homelessness but this seems like a fail on epical levels (unless profits for these pod companies are what we care about).
Thunderbird for Android 8.0 Now Available
Thunderbird for Android takes flight today! Find out what's new in the first stable release, where to download it, and how to get started!
New thunderbird available for android now. :)
LG monitor asking about ad tracking preferences
It. Is. Never. Enough.
You paid hundreds of dollars for a new monitor, but it doesn't matter. More ads, more profits.
I hate it.
Alien Romulus
I just watched alien romulus and I thought it was really frustrating. What happened to the lethal face huggers and the older, experienced crew of spaceships that got paid like shit by the company?
Now they are hitting face huggers left and right with sticks, and people just get up after having one over their face.
I didn't feel like I cared about the characters. They were actually quite unlikeable. I really miss Ripley. She had enormous amount of character, strength and intelligence. What did we get in this movie? They are all super generic.
Just disappointed. How about you guys?
Valve reminds Steam users they don't actually own a darn thing they buy
GOG previously said it wants "to ensure your gaming legacy is always in your hands"
I guess it's just a matter of time before you subscribe to games, and you lose access when you stop paying.
Kagi Snaps
This is not revolutionary but it saves some keystrokes when wanting to limit results to certain sites.
Personally I don't really limit anything with Kagi. It's usually just finding what I want without having to do anything.
Removing Windows Recall breaks File Explorer in latest 24H2 update - NotebookCheck.net News
I wish I was a billion dollar company who gets away with stuff like this. Just generally break people's systems, add spyware, lie to users, treat them like shit.
All while making even more money and my stocks keep on going up, because AI, Ai, Ai...
How is the calories meter on exercise bikes accurate
The bike knows my height and weight and that's about it. From that it can calculate how my body burns calories?
Every body is very different, so I don't see how any calculation can be accurate.
Hetzner launches s3-compatible object storage
I can't express how much I love hetzner doing this. There is a huge market for people who just need some instances and reliable/cheap object storage to run their apps.
Explain why the US bail system is not insane
If you have money, you can pay the bail and get released, while poor people can't.
I don't see why people with money should get benefits in the legal system?
Bosses are firing Gen Z grads just months after hiring them—here’s what they say needs to change
Here’s what they say needs to change.
Is gen z intentionally refusing to change their behavior for work, or what is the reason for this?
Kind of think it's cool that they remain themselves.
This will be a vote against competition.
Similar to America, Europe is also artificially trying to make consumers choose native cars, by making Chinese ones more expensive.
This will be a vote against competition.
Similar to America, Europe is also artificially trying to make consumers choose native cars, by making Chinese ones more expensive.
It's about debt on zombie office towers.
This article describes the real reason behind the push back to the office. It's about rich people gambling on real estate and now office buildings are empty.
These same people own newspapers and media channels which is why their crying voices are being pushed.
Frostpunk 2 releases in 1 hour!
Not long to go now :) Frostpunk 1 was one of my all time favorite games and I think everyone should check out the sequel. It's been getting stellar reviews.
Do remote workers actually work? Yes, but they also shop and shower
Remote workers often brag about how productive they are at home, but a new survey sheds light on what they're really doing all day.
My favorite quote:
> While employees in the office might kill time messaging friends or flipping through TikTok, remote workers take advantage of being far from the watchful gaze of bosses to chip away at personal to-do lists or to goof off.
> Nearly half of remote workers multitask on work calls or complete household chores like unloading the dishwasher or doing a load of laundry, according to the SurveyMonkey poll of 3,117 full-time workers in the U.S.
Oh noes, people actually doing things that are useful for their families instead of even more computer time.
It's insane that this is even considered strange or surprising. When I work from home, I take longer lunch breaks and I often stop working earlier, but I'm still three times as productive compared to sitting in an office.
At home, I actually get focused time to do something and think. At the office, this is extreamly difficult with all the distractions and noise constantly interrupting my train of thought.
My Job Is to Train Tesla's Cars to Drive Themselves
A worker on Tesla's Autopilot team described what it's like labeling the influx of driver videos.
Some quotes from the article:
> There is something very strange about having this very intimate view into someone's life. It feels odd to see someone's daily drive, but it's also an important part of correcting and refining the program.
> We review about five and a half to six hours of footage per day. It can be very hard to focus. You can get in this kind of fog when you're just watching clip after clip and it can be difficult to keep yourself sane.
> Anytime you're not clicking around in the software program, it tracks you as if you aren't working and it basically sets off an alarm to your superiors.
These jobs sound very dystopian to me, and a bit psychopathic as well. All the movies I watched growing up about dystopian societies is reflected in what this guy says about his job.
Off by default, but never fully gone.
Who is surprised?
Customize YouTube to work exactly the way you want it to.
I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.
And the best part is no ads whatsoever.